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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1896
Page
2
The Newton Record surveys boxing star James J. Corbett against Tom Sharkey as a campaign talker while noting sensational foreign events, a Missouri coronation death toll near four thousand, and a string of local dangers from prankish violence to life insurance scams sweeping Central Illinois farmers.
City authorities remove wild cherry Phosphate drinking fountains amid temperance protests led by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Ellis Kane women clamp down on nuisances while most whisky joints are jailed and a county attorney faces bribery charges. A Kilmore revival under Mrs Mershon ends with Newton Sheets failing to convert Nathan Rodenberger as religious zeal leads to exhaustion. J C Monaghan reports New England apples praised in Germany and calls for bigger New England apple exports. Walling may join Jackson on the scaffold as a call for swift hangings reflects violent rhetoric amid a season of croaking about frogs in Chicago.
A series of articles defends U S armored plate policy and domestic production amid bidding disputes. It argues American independence in shipbuilding, cites cost ranges per ton from 515 to 628 dollars, claims collusion by two firms Carnegie and Bethlehem, and criticizes foreign competition.
The article argues two armor plants competed on work suited to each, denying collusion as prices averaged $52 per ton below 1898 levels. Bethlehem and Carnegie supplied 2,653 tons and Russia bought a small lot at about $300 per ton, claimed below cost to keep American labor busy. European reaction noted. Navy secretary awarded the contracts while asserting no favoritism.
Fragment from a 1892 era editorial accusing the democratic administration of dishonest attempts to hamper sugar producers and damage manufacturing. It cites Senator Manderson, the two Louis, and warnings about tariff policy, prosperity rhetoric, and rising wages with falling prices.
The piece asserts that calls for a financial panic to derail McKinley’s nomination are a Democratic bluff. It argues bankers would suffer from a panic, cites bank loan and deposit figures in 1892 and 1896, and claims free trade papers exaggerate danger to discredit the GOP.
A New York Mercury excerpt ponders marriage motives and youth versus age, joking that love may matter little next to lodging. It parodies social vanity, advises modesty, and mocks critics with a Denver editor’s blunt Hamlet remark. A Leadville note headlines a disastrous Richard III.
A distressed bass viol player unable to pay rent crawled into his large fiddle and died in Paris. He was discovered a day later after the landlady seized the viol for rent. Rescue proved hard, even after removing the back of the instrument, and investigators found no explanation for how he entered the case.
Fragmentary speech on duty and obligation urges immediate action and rejects delaying resolution. The speaker asserts duty is owed to others and should not wait for settlement of other questions, urging decisive conduct without hesitation.
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